From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 17:18:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4BD16A412 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:18:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jgrosch@juniper.net) Received: from kremlin.juniper.net (kremlin.juniper.net [207.17.137.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9D643D62 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:18:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jgrosch@juniper.net) Received: from unknown (HELO alpha.jnpr.net) ([172.24.18.126]) by kremlin.juniper.net with ESMTP; 21 Sep 2006 10:16:08 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,196,1157353200"; d="scan'208"; a="585353920:sNHT52609344" Received: from [172.24.115.16] ([172.24.115.16]) by alpha.jnpr.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:18:17 -0700 Message-ID: <4512C959.9040404@juniper.net> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:18:17 -0700 From: Josef Grosch Organization: Juniper Networks User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060613) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ennio Pozzetti References: <451253DD.1030001@nsa.it> In-Reply-To: <451253DD.1030001@nsa.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2006 17:18:17.0702 (UTC) FILETIME=[EDE07060:01C6DDA1] Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with P400 smartarray X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:18:22 -0000 Ennio Pozzetti wrote: > We are interesting in running Freebsd on a DL380/G5 with P400 Smartarray > SAS controller. > > There is no P400 support on freebsd 6.1 hardware list, but we noticed > that on the driver ciss.c revision 1.64.2.3 2006/05/10 (6.1 STABLE) > looks like there is support for P400 and P400i. > Does anyone succeeded at running 6.1 STABLE on DL380/G5 with P400 support ? > > regards > You should forward this to freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org. I've got a couple of DL380/G5 machines that are very happy running FreeBSD 6.X. One of them I know has a P400 Smartarray SAS controller. It seems to work pretty well. My only problem so far is that a kernel with PAE panics when it tries to initialize the Broadcom network device. My options then became 1) run without PAE and only use 4Gig of memory instead of the full 16 2) install another ether device and comment out the Broadcom device 3) install the AMD64 version of FreeBSD which does not need PAE to see all the memory. Josef -- FreeBSD 6.1 | Josef Grosch | Help, help, I'm being repressed! jgrosch@juniper.net |